Valid points, yet also content needs to be removed for this. As currently project leads demanded for some way of publishing articles also on the front page, this option has been added, therefore the need to scroll. Presentation box could be made a little smaller in height, but then, we probably need to move the product items.
Well, I think that the real flaw is in the mechanism. What you are wrestling with is a site designed by a committee, all of whom feel they know what needs to be there. The alternate proposal is designed by one professional. No wonder it's better.
There is in the current arrangement an essential asymmetry. The various project leads would not and do not submit their work to detailed consideration by everyone else. They don't allow the web site project a veto on their priorities. Their work is better done as a result.
Right back at the beginning of this round of frustrating silliness, in January, I argued that the review committee, which was then only this group, should only be accept or reject proposals, not to modify them. Nothing that has happened since then has change my opinion that this is the only way to get things done. The review committee has been enlarged to include all the project leads and the result -- as anyone could have predicted -- is uglier and less useful than the original proposal. (I don't want to be wholly negative. I love the silly winged box graphic. It's too big, and it should be thrown away, but it is pretty and memorable. Making anything worthwhile involves throwing away really good things that just don't fit.)
If I sound snarky -- and if, god forbid, occasionally I am snarky -- this is becasue I have been on this list since god knows when. the oldest discussions on rebuilding the site I can find on my disk date from December 2002, but I know there had been a round of proposals before then. And the same things always happens. Someone comes in, bursting with energy, knowledge, and suggestions for improvement. A committee immediately forms to second guess them. After two months they give up in disgust or exhaustion. Four months after that, something happens which pleases no one very much. Then everything goes quiet for another year.
-- Andrew Brown What I do: www.darwinwars.com What I'm up to: www.thewormbook.com/helmintholog/
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